There’s a way Biden can both help artists and preserve Covid’s terrible legacy

The pandemic is finally starting to wind down in the US — but will its stories be as lost to history as those from the Spanish Flu in 1918? [View in browser]( [Image]( May 22, 2021 THE LATEST [Alternate text] We can't afford to forget what it was like to live through Covid-19 by Talia Lavin The pandemic is finally starting to wind down in the U.S. — but will its stories be as lost to history as those from the Spanish Flu in 1918? After so much loss and hardship, how will America capture what it was like to live through these times that tried so many people and cost so many lives? For an answer, Talia Lavin looks to the Great Depression and a groundbreaking project to document history as it happened. "Imagine writers, photographers, playwrights and filmographers fanning out across the country, capturing the stories of meatpacking and grocery store workers who held the line against the disease at great cost, and for paltry wages," Lavin writes. "A Federal Writers’ Project — an Artists’ Project, really — in 2021 could take full advantage of the range of narrative opportunity, from murals to short films to painstaking oral histories, of communities and jargons and stories that would otherwise disappear." Read more of Talia Lavin's analysis in your Saturday [MSNBC Daily.]( TOP STORIES [Alternate text] [A photo of Eric, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Donald Trump seated]( [Frank Figliuzzi]( [Why Trump's children should be especially worried about the Trump criminal probe]( Who said what to whom? [Read More]( [A collage of prominent Democrats speaking out against a black back drop ]( [Mehdi Hasan]( [Even the most pro-Israel Democrats are done being silent about Palestinians]( You need to understand how big this shift is. [Read More]( [A photo of Joe Biden at a podium ]( [Steve Benen]( [Biden shares the 'most devastating comment' he's heard as president]( Biden is clearly desperate to undo the damage of the previous guy. [Read More]( TOP VIDEOS [Alternate text] [A photo of Trump's silhouette with a crowd behind him]( [The Beat With Ari]( [Trump warns GOP leadership to push 2020 election lie 'or they'll lose their jobs']( [A photo of Kevin McCarthy ]( [The ReidOut]( [The GOP's 'tomfoolerly' would be funny if it wasn't so serious]( [A photo of Biden seated at a table with his hand on his chin]( [Deadline White House]( [How well did Biden handle his first foreign conflict as POTUS?]( LISTEN NOW [Alternate text] Into America After George Floyd Trymaine Lee sits down with Christopher Martin, the 18-year-old clerk at a Minneapolis Cup Foods who accepted George Floyd’s counterfeit $20 bill. In a rare, intimate conversation, Martin opens up to Trymaine about his life before George Floyd, the trauma of the day and his path forward nearly a year after Floyd’s death. [Listen now.]( MORE ON MSNBC [Alternate text] On the first anniversary of George Floyd's death, PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton will be live in Minneapolis, with one question in mind: What has changed? Watch 'PoliticsNation,' Sunday at 5 p.m. ET. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., join Jonathan Capehart live to discuss the ongoing struggle to form a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission. Watch 'The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,' at 10 a.m. ET. Follow MSNBC [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [LinkedIn]( Check out the MSNBC channel on Apple News Download the NBC News Mobile App and watch MSNBC [Listen live to MSNBC on TuneIn]( [Image] [Image] [Privacy]( [Unsubscribe](listvar=sub_daily)